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This book contains the history and genealogy of many families from Pennsylvania.
Bibliographic Information: Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies. Lane S. Hart.
Harrisburg. 1886.
Reprint: Publisher : Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969.
Description : viii, 798 p. ; 23 cm.
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Pages 151-176
Chapter heading:
ELDER FAMILY.
I. ROBERT ELDER, b. about 1679 in Scotland,
emigrated from Lough Neagh, county Antrim,
Ireland, where he had previously settled, to America,
about 1730, locating in Paxtang township, then Lancaster, now Dauphin county, Pa., on a tract of land near the first ridge of
the Kittochtinny mountains, five miles north of Harrisburg.
He died the 28th of July, 1746, in Paxtang, and is buried in the old church grave-yard...."
Notes:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder/EglePAelder.htm
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Using the new OCLC library search on WorldCat, I found
an available copy of the 1938 PAXTANG ELDER - ANDERSON history book about
their move from PAXTANG to Westmoreland Co PA, by John Calvin ELDER.
(52 pages, 5.5 x 8 in.)
My local library requested an Interlibrary loan
from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
at
http://www.augustana.edu

It arrived yesterday, so I copied most of it at my library.
One of the SHIELDS-ANDERSON-ELDER family apparently
donated the book to the College in South Dakota.
It's great to have more references for answering ELDER queries!

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh also has a copy, but non-circulating.
Their online catalog entry:
Author: Elder, John Calvin.
Title: Genealogy and historical record of the Anderson and Elder families of the Richlands of Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania : who settled there in 1783 / by John Calvin Elder.
Publisher: New Alexandria, Pa. : the Author, 1938.
Description: 52 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
LOCATION: CALL # STATUS
CLP Main Pennsylvania Dept. (Oakland) - Reference Stack Area r 929.2 E437 NONCIRCULATING

Much of the information seems the same as in the
PAXTANG ELDER biographies in
"History of Westmoreland Co PA"
but I found a few more tidbits.
Here's a story about "ELDER FORT" in DERRY TOWNSHIP:
Page 11:
"After landing [moving from PAXTANG area to DERRY TOWNSHIP in 1783],
they proceeded to erect a log house (or as they called it, their mansion house) on their plantation, as they called their farm then. With the united help of the men, a house could be built in a few days. Another very necessary building was a fort for protection from the Indians, who continued to make raids in Derry Township from across the Conemaugh...This building was much larger and more strongly built than their log dwellings. In order to accommodate quite a number of families, this Fort was erected on Hannah Elder's Plantation over a spring of water beside her log Cabin, and was known all over the northern part of Derry Township as Fort ELDER."
"Besides Fort Elder there were four other forts in the Township:
Fort Wallace, Fort Barr or Gilson, Fort Pumroy and Fort Sloan.
" In 1934, the School Directors of Derry Township purchased five new
buses to convey the children to the Township High School, and each bus will
bear the name of one of these Forts, which will be printed on it.
The object is to get the children interested in the early history of the Township."

Page 16: ANDERSON FAMILY
..."There is little doubt that the Andersons of Scotland were distant ancestors and that some of the families had moved to Ireland, as Robert ELDER [of PAXTANG] had done."
"Thomas ANDERSON was born in Donegal, Ireland. In 1725 came with his parents to America. About 1745 they settled in Donegal, Lancaster Co PA. Later he lived with his sister, Hannah who was married to David Elder of Paxtang, above Harrisburg....
"I have two or three of his distilling account books from 1760 to 1770. From these books we learn that he at one time had visited Scotland before coming to America and while there had met and fallen in love with a Scotch Lassie, named Eliza [but they never married...]
"His library consisted of fine leather back books,
which are still well preserved." [1938].

Page 24:
"In 1783 Hannah Anderson ELDER, now a widow, together with her son
Robert and his wife and their children, Hannah, aged three,
and Thomas, aged one year, and her brother, Thomas Anderson, emigrated with the Anderson Colony and settled on that tract of land on the Richlands near New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, which her brother, Thomas, had taken up for her in 1769. This tract was called Hannesburg....She was ninety-six years old when she died and is buried in the Old Salem Churchyard. Beside her illustrious brother, Thomas Anderson, there also is buried her son Robert, who died in 1834, aged 80, and his wife, Mary Whiteside, who died in 1823, age 68 years."